Toy palette



Febo l@ 9 i924., QARMEL TOY PALETTE Filed May l, 1923 ao: ne q Patented Feb. 19, 1924.

UNITED STATES JOSEPH CARMEL, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO HARRY ALFRED l s` NEW YORK, N. Y.

TOY PELLETTE.

Application led Hay 1, 1923. Serial No. 635,942.

To all :zc/1.0m it ma 1/ concern Be it known that I, Josnrrr CARMEL, citizen of Poland. residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements iu Toy Palettes. of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to painting, and has special reference to a toy painting outlit particularly designed to be sold at a lowprice, as for instance in such stores as the well known five and ten cent stores.

One important object of the invention is to provide a novel toy painting outfit in l5 which provision is made for carrying paints, brushes and crayons on a palette like device cut and stamped from sheet material.

A second important object of the invention is the 'provision of a novel palette cut and stamped from sheet material and having means to hold a paint brush and paints, and being also provided with a crayon holder of novel construction likewise formed from a single piece of sheet mate rial.

With the above and other objects in view the invention consists of a new article o manufacture wherein the various portions are each formed from sheet material cut and stamped or pressed in a novel manner toprovide a toy painters palette having means to hold disks or cakes of paint, other meansfto hold a paint brush, and still other means to hold a set of crayons.

In the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, a preferred form of the invention is illustrated, and in the several views like characters of reference indicate like parts throughout.

In the drawings- Fig. 1 is a face view of-the palette illustrating the crayons and brush in position.

Fig. 2 is a detail section on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1. ig. 3 is a detail section on the line 3--3 of F1g. 1.

Fig. 4 is a detail section on the line 4-.4 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 5 is a detail section through the cray- Von holder on the line 5-5 of Fi 1.

Fig. 6 is a detail face view o? a modified form of the crayon holder.

The invention, in the form herein shown, consists of a piece of sheet material, preferably of metal, althoughA other material may be used if desired, and this piece of sheet material is cut to form a main or body por tion 10, having a palette like outline, and having its periphery beaded as at 11 to prevent cutting the iin ers of the users. The usual palette thumb Ilole 12 is provided, and this is also beaded around its periphery as at 13. Disposed centrally of the body portion 10 is a crayon holder which I form from a single piece of sheet material cut to provide an annulus, and then bent and crimped,

so that when the operations are finished there is obtained a disk 14 having radial crayon holding pockets 15 formed therein, and open at their outer ends, the inner ends abutting and being closed by the crimping, as shown at 16.

On the peri hery of the disk 14 are provided triangu ar prongs 17 which; extend through suitable openings in the main portion 10, and are then bent to retain the crayon holder in place. Spaced around the body of the palette at the end remote from the thumb hole are certain depressions 18 which are formed bv stamping or pressing the material, and which constitute a paint cake or disk receiving depression. In each of these depressions, the material is slit to provide a v series of pointed prongs 19 which may either bebent upwardly and then inwardly over the edge of a paint disk or cake, or may have the paint disk or cake molded thereon. At one place the lbody 10 is provided with a circular opening 2O wherein fits a shallow water pan 21 having a peripheral flange 22 so that it cannot sli through the opening. This water pan is li ewise stamped from a single piece of the sheet material. It is obvious that there may be as many of the paint receiving depressions, and as many water pans as is found desirable in practice. In addition to this one or more brush holders are provided, there being but one shown in the present instance, although it is obvious that the number may be multi lied to suit the requirements of the case. ach of these brush holders is formed of a pair ot U-shaped slits arranged in alinement with their closed ends toward each other, but

spaced to provide a bridge piece 23. The material defined b the U-sha ed slits thus lconstitutes oppose tongues w ich are bent downward, as best shown in Fig. 3, one ot the tongues being indicated at 24,' and receiving the butt end of a brush, while the lill@ other tongue is shown at 25 and receives the front or brush end of such brush.

ln the form shown in Fig. 6, the crayon holder is provided with tubes which are slit in the manuel' shown at 26 for the better gripping of the crayons.

It -will be obvious'that a device constructed in this manner can bemade very cheaply, and is thus highly suitable for the purpose of a toy painting outfit, and it will also be obvious that the particular' form and construction may be modied to suit various purposes and costs. It is not therefore desired to confine the invention to the exact form herein shown and described, but it is wished to include all such as properly come within the scope claimed.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new, is:

l. A toy palette comprising a fiat palette shaped main portion formed from a single piece of sheet material,l said material havingra pair of substantially U-shaped slits formed therein in alinement, the closed ends of the Us being arranged opposite each yother in spaced relation whereby to form a bridge piece between the slit portions, the portions defined by saidi slits constituting tongues and being bent downward to form rests for the ends of a brush held beneath the bridge piece.

sions, each 2. A toy palette comprising a flat palette shaped main portion formed .from a single piece of sheet material and having certain portions adjacent its periphery dished to form shallow paint cake receiving depressions, each of said depressions having a series of upstanding prongs struck from the sheet material to engage a paint cake, and a crayon holder provided with radial crayon pockets and fixed to the main portion.

3. A. toy palette comprising a flat palette shaped main portion formed from a single piece of sheet material and having certain portions adjacent its periphery dished to form shallow paint cake receivingV depresof said depressions having a series of upstanding prongs struck from the sheet material to engage a paint cake, a crayon holder provided with radial crayon pockets and fixed to the main portion, said crayon holder consisting of ya single annulus of sheet material crimped and bent to form said pockets and providedY with peripheral prongs extending through the main portion and bent to hold the crayon holder on the main portion.

` In testimony whereof I hereunto ailix my signature.

JOSEPH CARMEL. 

